Synopsys Supports Arm AGI CPU with Full-Stack Design Solutions

Synopsys, Inc. shares its collaboration with Arm on the development of the Arm AGI (artificial general intelligence) CPU, providing solutions across its full-stack design portfolio including electronic design automation, interface IP, and hardware-assisted verification (HAV).

"Designing data center silicon for increasingly complex AI workloads requires rigorous validation across the full system," says Mohamed Awad, executive vice president, Cloud AI Business Unit, Arm. "The Arm AGI CPU reflects the strength of our SoC [system on a chip] design and the effectiveness of our collaboration with Synopsys. Their design, IP, and verification solutions supported the development and validation of our breakthrough performance-per-watt chip for next-generation AI infrastructure."

"We congratulate Arm for delivering the AGI CPU with such ambition and precision," says Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer, Synopsys. "This achievement reflects exceptional engineering discipline, and we're proud that Synopsys design, IP, and advanced verification solutions played a mission-critical role in delivering this innovation."

Arm and Synopsys collaborated closely to optimize the power, performance, and efficiency of the AGI CPU, built on Arm Neoverse CSS V3. Synopsys solutions used for the design and verification of the Arm AGI CPU, include:

Broad Portfolio of Arm-Enabled Synopsys Design Solutions
Synopsys delivers a portfolio of design solutions on Arm-based architectures, including Synopsys VCS, Fusion Compiler, IC Validator, PrimeTime, and RedHawk-SC.

Synopsys provided a comprehensive portfolio of design tools with support for Arm-based architectures, including solutions for synthesis, power integrity and reliability analysis, and signoff timing and physical verification. 

Synopsys Silicon‑Proven Interface IP
Synopsys and Arm are continuing the companies' work together to co-optimize their IP solutions. Synopsys silicon-proven, complete IP solutions help accelerate interface subsystem development, reduce integration risk, speed the path to production, and improve silicon management.

Synopsys Software-Defined Hardware-Assisted Verification (HAV) 
Synopsys' software-defined HAV solutions help accelerate verification and software development. Synopsys ZeBu Server 5, combined with pre-verified Synopsys IP-HAV solutions, delivers fidelity needed for bring-up and system functionality and power validation ahead of silicon and on schedule.

In addition, Synopsys HAPS prototyping systems support extensive software development and system‑level performance validation use cases with access to Synopsys Interface Protocol Kits (IPKs) for Synopsys IP titles.

Synopsys support for the Arm Total Design ecosystem continues with the launch of the AGI CPU as the companies continue to collaborate to accelerate custom silicon development and reduce design complexity for Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS).

Learn more about how Arm and Synopsys are collaborating to advance custom silicon innovation: https://www.synopsys.com/partners/arm.html. 

To learn more about Synopsys' full-stack design capabilities for high-performance computing and data center use cases, visit https://www.synopsys.com/hpc-data-center.html.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.